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title: As the rough rocks were ill for riding the huntsmen sprang to earth… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the rough rocks were ill for riding the huntsmen sprang to earth and hastened on foot, and cast about round the hill and the thicket. Who acts: rough rocks. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, par
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 93

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As the rough rocks were ill for riding the huntsmen sprang to earth and hastened on foot, and cast about round the hill and the thicket.

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**Who acts:** rough rocks · **What happens:** be, ride, spring, hasten, cast about · **To what, where:** huntsmen, earth, foot

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This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rough rocks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66084:5:93
# text = As the rough rocks were ill for riding the huntsmen sprang to earth and hastened on foot, and cast about round the hill and the thicket.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	round	round	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the rough rocks |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ride** | gerund |  | the huntsmen |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme |
| 3 | **spring** | past |  |  |  | earth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Destination |
| 4 | **hasten** | participle |  |  |  | foot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory |
| 5 | **cast about** | present |  |  |  |  |  | round the hill and the thicket; about *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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